Conservative Quotes

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. View quote
Hannah Arendt
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative. View quote
Glenn Beck
I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie. View quote
Glenn Beck
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. View quote
Al Franken
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. (Salman Rushdie)
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. View quote
Ann Coulter
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. View quote
Ernest Bevin
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. View quote
Mike Pence
I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal